Summary: Use new nodes for loadFence/storeFence intrinsics in C2.
Reviewed-by: kvn, dholmes

Summary: Add a field to C2 LoadNode and StoreNode classes which indicates whether the load/store should do an acquire/release on platforms which support it.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: rbackman, twisti, kvn
Contributed-by: john.r.rose@oracle.com, vladimir.x.ivanov@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: coleenp, mgerdin, hseigel

Summary: Replaces unused decodeN at MemBarAcquire with its corresponding loadN if loadN is used at more than one place.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

8001345: VM crashes with assert(n->outcnt() != 0 || C->top() == n || n->is_Proj()) failed: No dead instructions after post-alloc
Summary: Remove unnecessary LoadN / DecodeN nodes at MemBarAcquire nodes.
Reviewed-by: kvn, roland

Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp
Contributed-by: jeremymanson@google.com, calvin.cheung@oracle.com

Summary: Resurrected autobox elimination code and enabled part of it by default.
Reviewed-by: roland, twisti

Summary: dump nodes and types in 8004640 case.
Reviewed-by: roland

Summary: InitializeNode::can_capture_store() must check that the captured store doesn't overwrite a memory location that is loaded before the store.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Use SSE4.2 and AVX2 instructions for encodeArray intrinsic.
Reviewed-by: roland

Summary: use 'rep stosb' instead of 'rep stosq' when fast-string operations are available.
Reviewed-by: twisti, roland

Summary: support of compress class pointers in the compilers.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Capitalize these metadata types (and objArrayKlass)
Reviewed-by: stefank, twisti, kvn

Summary: Deleted placement new operator of Node - node(size_t, Compile *, int).
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: bharadwaj.yadavalli@oracle.com

Summary: Remove PermGen, allocate meta-data in metaspace linked to class loaders, rewrite GC walking, rewrite and rename metadata to be C++ classes
Reviewed-by: jmasa, stefank, never, coleenp, kvn, brutisso, mgerdin, dholmes, jrose, twisti, roland
Contributed-by: Njmasa &lt;jon.masamitsu@oracle.com&gt;, stefank &lt;stefan.karlsson@oracle.com&gt;, mgerdin &lt;mikael.gerdin@oracle.com&gt;, never <tom.rodriguez@oracle.com>

Summary: Increase vector size up to 256-bits for YMM AVX registers on x86.
Reviewed-by: never, twisti, roland

Summary: Add missing check for EncodeP node in MemNode::Ideal_common_DU_postCCP() method.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: use shorter instruction sequences for atomic add and atomic exchange when possible.
Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: Use !higher_equal() check to skip top and values which fit.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Add Value() methods to short and byte Load nodes to truncate constants which does not fit.
Reviewed-by: jrose

Summary: Compare uncasted object nodes.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: adds store store barrier after initialization of header and body of objects.
Reviewed-by: never, kvn

Summary: Moved sizeof(klassOopDesc), changed the return type to ByteSize and removed the _in_bytes suffix.
Reviewed-by: never, bdelsart, coleenp, jrose

Summary: Delay memory node transformation until the memory is processed.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, never

Summary: Use dead nodes elimination code in PhaseIdealLoop before executing EA.
Reviewed-by: never, twisti

Summary: Don't zero new typeArray during runtime call if the allocation is followed by arraycopy into it.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: Try to eliminate allocations and related locks immediately after escape analysis.
Reviewed-by: never

Reviewed-by: never

Summary: replace MemBarAcquire/MemBarRelease nodes on the monitor enter/exit code paths with new MemBarAcquireLock/MemBarReleaseLock nodes
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: memory slices should be always created for non-static fields after allocation
Reviewed-by: never

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: StrIntrinsicNode::Ideal() should not optimize memory during Parse.
Reviewed-by: jrose, never

Summary: In Ideal() method of String intrinsics nodes look for TypeAryPtr::CHARS memory slice if memory is MergeMem. Do not unroll a loop with String intrinsics code.
Reviewed-by: never

Reviewed-by: never, coleenp, ysr, jwilhelm

Summary: copy small (<8) strings on stack if str+16 crosses a page boundary and load from stack into XMM. Back up pointer when loading string's tail.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: The assert in MergeMemNode::memory_at() misses the case when address is TOP.
Reviewed-by: never

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Replaced MakeDeps and the includeDB files with more standardized solutions.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kvn, kamg

Summary: Missing check for not empty worklist when puting memory node back on worklist and expecting address type update.
Reviewed-by: never